Brazil Sentences to 108 Years Serial Killer who Abused, Murdered and Mutilated 42 Children

A Brazilian serial killer who sexually abused, murdered and mutilated dozens of children has been sentenced to more than a century in jail by a court in the northern state of Maranhao.

Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito, a 50-year-old bicycle mechanic, was found guilty of murdering three children in 1997. The verdict was passed at the last of 11 trials he has faced since his arrest 2004.

Eduardo Rocha da Silva, 10, Raimundo Nonato da Conceicao Filho, 11, and Edivam Pinto Lobato, 12, were found dead with their genitals severed in the municipality of Paco do Lumiar. One had also a finger cut off his hand.

Judge Jaqueline Reis Caracas sentenced Das Chagas to 108 years behind bars for the gruesome crimes, adding to the 277 years he was handed at previous trials.